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- | The principle can be concisely | + | The principle can be described as: A spectator is told to write a word or question on a slip of paper or card. On this piece of paper are instructions about what information he is to write; e.g., phone number, address, birth date, a friend’s name, a color, a city he has visited. The spectator doesn' |
- | Nineteen years later, James G. Thompson, Jr. used the idea in [[http:// | + | A verbal approach using billets was employed by Dr. Edward Ervin and recorded in 1937 by Dariel Fitzkee in // |
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- | A more advanced version was devised in the early 1970s by John Pomeroy. In Pomeroy’s version, each slip secretly requests a different bit of information than the others, along with one piece of information openly asked from all the participants. This leaves not only the audience puzzled but the persons who filled out the slips, since their slip did not ask for the information being revealed to others. John Pomeroy’s method is explained in his book // | + | Nineteen years after Kara published //Karaism//, James G. Thompson, Jr. used the idea in [[http:// |
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+ | A more advanced version was devised in the early 1970s by John Pomeroy. In Pomeroy’s version, each slip secretly requests a different bit of information than the others, along with one piece of information openly asked from all the participants. This leaves not only the audience puzzled but the persons who filled out the slips, since their slip did not ask for the information being revealed to others. John Pomeroy’s method is explained in his book // | ||
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